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The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc

A thrift shop that sells donated items and donates its net revenue to various charities and gives scholarships to local high schools that choose the recipients

$238k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$330kHousing & Shelter$149kEducation$90kHealth$71kFood & Nutrition$58kPhilanthropy$50kYouth Development$21kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $105,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $238,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $133,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HERNDON-RESTON FISH INC$33,000
LAUREL LEARNING CENTERCORNERSTONES$13,750
LINK INC$13,750
BRITEPATHS$12,000
DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY$10,000
COMPUTER CORE$7,500
ALL AGES READ TOGETHER$7,500
MOBILE HOPE OF LOUDOUN$5,000
FELLOWSHIP SQUARE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%SECOND STORY: $3k → 6%LEGACY FARMS: $1k → 4%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $1k → 6%HERNDON-RESTON FISH INC: $33k → 6%HERNDON-RESTON FISH: $30k → 6%HERNDON-RESTON FISH: $27k → 6%HERNDON-RESTON FISH INC: $25k → 6%FISH: $20k → 6%HERNDON-RESTON FISH: $18k → 6%HERNDON-RESTON FISH: $18k → 6%VECINOS UNIDOS: $5k → 6%VECINOS UNIDOS: $5k → 6%VECINOS UNIDOS: $5k → 6%SHE BELIEVES IN ME: $5k → 6%SHE BELIEVES IN ME: $5k → 6%VECINOS UNIDOS: $4k → 6%FISH: $3k → 6%HERNDON-RESTON FISH: $2k → 6%EXPRESS CARE: $1k → 6%SHEPHERD CENTER OF NOVA: $5k → 6%SHEPHARD CENTER OF NOVA: $4k → 6%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT: $1k → 6%FAMILY PASS: $13k → 6%FAMILY PASS: $8k → 6%FAMILY PASS: $8k → 6%FAMILY PASS: $5k → 6%FAMILY PASS: $5k → 6%LAUREL LEARNING CENTERCORNERSTONES: $14k → 6%CORNERSTONES: $10k → 6%LAUREL LEARNING CENTER: $7k → 6%LAUREL LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 6%LAUREL LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 6%FAMILY PASS: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$771k · 41 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
12

Total granted

$771k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+1%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    Herndon-Reston FISH Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +42%
  • CI
    CORNERSTONES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +53%
  • AA
    All Ages Read Together
    6× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • NV
    NORTHERN VIRGINIA HEBREW CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • DS
    DULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +40%
  • MR
    MERIDIANS RECOVERY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -56%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
SeniorNavigatorcom

SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…

Community Improvement
2
Novaco Inc

Novaco helps homeless victims of domestic abuse become healthy, secure and self-sufficient through community collaboration to provide housing, education, childcare, counseling, mentoring and financial management.

Human Services
3
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc

Provision of food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
4
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc

Loaves & fishes provides nourishing food with respect and dignity to all who seek assistance, while offering robust opportunities for community engagement through volunteerism, partnerships, and nutrition education.

Food & Nutrition
5
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition
6
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.

Crime & Legal
7
The Shepherds Center of Fairfax-Burke

Provide programs and services for older adults.

Human Services
8
GoochlandCares

GoochlandCares (GC) provides basic human services for local individuals who need help with healthcare, housing, food, clothing, and domestic violence services, providing a safety net for 2,135 Goochland residents and their families in 2024.

Health
9
Homestretch Inc

The Organization provides various types of temporary housing assistance and life-skills training to homeless families with children.

Human Services
10
Falls Church Community Service Council Inc

To provide human services to poor and disadvantaged individuals and families in the Falls Church community.

Human Services
11
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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12
Nourishing Bethesda Inc

Fighting food insecurity in our area by providing nutritious food and community support to our neighbors in need, as well as offering and linking our clients to wraparound resources that will enable them to build healthy and stable lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstones Inc; the most unlike its peers is Adaptive Fitness Legion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
39/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Herndon-Reston FISH Inc: $174,200 · Human ServicesHerndon-Reston FISH IncCORNERSTONES INC: $54,250 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES INCFAMILY PRESERVATION AND STRENGTHENING SERVICES: $38,700 · Human ServicesFAMILY PRESERVATION AND STRENGTHENING SERV…VECINOS UNIDOS-NEIGHBORS UNITED INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesVECINOS UNIDOS-NEIGHBORS UNITED INC+7 more: $28,000 · Human Services+7 moreBRITEPATHS INC: $36,300 · OtherBRITEPATHS INCHERNDON VILLAGE NETWORK: $23,500 · OtherHERNDON VILLAGE NETWORKLINK INCORPORATED: $16,250 · OtherLINK INCORPORATEDOAR of Fairfax County: $14,000 · OtherOAR of Fairfax CountyLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc: $10,500 · OtherKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTERNATIONAL: $10,400 · OtherHERNDON SENIOR CENTER COUNCIL INCORPORATED: $8,800 · OtherCORE FOUNDATION INC: $15,700 · OtherCORE FOUNDATION INCMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATIONWomen Giving Back Inc: $10,000 · Other+21 more: $75,768 · Other+21 moreAll Ages Read Together: $52,500 · EducationAll Ages Re…COMPUTER CORE INC: $16,000 · EducationCOMPUTER CO…Kids R First: $15,000 · EducationKids R Firs…PATHWAY HOMES INC: $22,500 · HealthPATHWAY HO…STROKE COMEBACK CENTER: $22,500 · HealthSTROKE COM…INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER: $16,000 · HealthINSIGHT ME…NORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC INC: $15,615 · HealthNORTHERN V…CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $4,000 · HealthShelter House Inc: $33,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Square Foundation: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFOOD FOR NEIGHBORS: $22,000 · Food & NutritionDULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionDULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionNETWORK FOR GOOD: $33,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$314,150Other$236,218Education$83,500Health$80,615Housing & Shelter$63,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Public Safety & Disaster$33,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHerndon-Reston FISH Inc: $174,200 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetCORNERSTONES INC: $54,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAll Ages Read Together: $52,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetFAMILY PRESERVATION AND STRENGTHENING SERVICES: $38,700 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBRITEPATHS INC: $36,300 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $33,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShelter House Inc: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAY HOMES INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTROKE COMEBACK CENTER: $22,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD FOR NEIGHBORS: $22,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFellowship Square Foundation: $20,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVECINOS UNIDOS-NEIGHBORS UNITED INC: $19,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetLINK INCORPORATED: $16,250 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTER CORE INC: $16,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCORE FOUNDATION INC: $15,700 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC INC: $15,615 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKids R First: $15,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOAR of Fairfax County: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Council of Northern Virginia Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTERNATIONAL: $10,400 over 4y, 10% of budgetSHE BELIEVES IN ME: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWomen Giving Back Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia: $9,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHAVEN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $5,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION: $5,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT ME UP INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $4,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $3,418 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERIDIANS RECOVERY: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Hand Up - NOVA Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetLANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHERNDON WOMANS CLUB GFWC VIRGINIA: $1,350 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY FARMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOOD SHEPHERD ALLIANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Herndon-Reston FISH Inc ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONES INC ↗
  • Who funds All Ages Read Together ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PRESERVATION AND STRENGTHENING SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BRITEPATHS INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds STROKE COMEBACK CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR NEIGHBORS ↗
  • Who funds Fellowship Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VECINOS UNIDOS-NEIGHBORS UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds LINK INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTER CORE INC ↗
  • Who funds CORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Kids R First ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OAR of Fairfax County ↗
  • Who funds Literacy Council of Northern Virginia Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SHE BELIEVES IN ME ↗
  • Who funds Women Giving Back Inc ↗
  • Who funds DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAWS BRINGING RESOURCES TO AID WOMEN'S SHELTERS ↗
  • Who funds The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia ↗
  • Who funds LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIFT ME UP INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS ↗
  • Who funds CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…United Way of the Nat…Philip L Graham Fund …The Jv Schiro Zavela …Community Foundation …Van Metre Companies F…Nelson J & Katherine …Alloy Family Foundati…Ada L and Albert M Wi…Clark-Winchcole Found…Latino Economic Devel…
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA57× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Nelson J & Katherine Friant Post Foundation · Alloy Family Foundation Inc · Ada L and Albert M Wibel Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Latino Economic Development Corporation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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